tag:cincinnatilibrary.org,2007:NewArrivals:popular_culturePopular Culture2019-03-19T03:15:47-04:00The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton Countyhttp://www.cincinnatilibrary.org/These titles were recently added to the collection of the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County.http://www.cincinnatilibrary.org/spotlight/feeds/newarrivals.png3424097The moth presents Occasional magic : true stories of defying the impossible2019-03-18T00:00:00-04:00

New York, New York : Crown Archetype, 2019.

xvi, 348 pages ; 22 cm

"Carefully selected by the creative minds at The Moth, and adapted to the page to preserve the raw energy of live storytelling, Occasional Magic features voices familiar and new. Storytellers from around the world share times when, in the face of challenging situations, they found moments of beauty, wonder, and clarity, shedding light on their lives and helping them find a path forward." -- Provided by publisher.

More than half a million visitors to the New York Public Library viewed an exhibition about the role that children's books play in world culture and in our lives. After it had closed, attendees clamored for a catalog of "The ABC of It" as well as for the insightful commentary of children's literature historian Leonard S. Marcus about the objects on display. This book, a collaboration between the University of Minnesota's Kerlan Collection of Children's Literature and Leonard S. Marcus, now makes the vision and experience of the exhibition available everywhere. -- Cover flap.

3421248Popular fads and crazes through American history2019-02-27T00:00:00-05:00

3423534Capitalist realism : is there no alternative?2019-02-20T00:00:00-05:00

Fisher, Mark (Mark Lee).

Winchester, UK ; Washington [D.C.] : Zero Books, [2009]

v, 81 pages ; 22 cm

1. Itʹs easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism --- 2. What if you held a protest and everyone came? --- 3. Capitalism and the Real --- 4. Reflexive impotence, immobilization and liberal communism --- 5. October 6, 1979: "Donʹt let yourself get attached to anything" --- 6. All that is solid melts into PR: market Stalinism and bureaucratic anti-production --- 7." ... if you can watch the overlap of one reality with another": capitalist realism as dreamwork and memory disorder --- 8. "Thereʹs no central exchange" --- 9: Marxist Supernanny.

After 1989, capitalism has successfully presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system - a situation that the bank crisis of 2008, far from ending, actually compounded. The book analyses the development and principal features of this capitalist realism as a lived ideological framework. Using examples from politics, films, fiction, work and education, it argues that capitalist realism colours all areas of contemporary experience. But it will also show that, because of a number of inconsistencies and glitches internal to the capitalist reality program capitalism in fact is anything but realistic.

The 1960s to early 1970s was a pivotal time for American culture, and New York City was ground zero for seismic shifts in music, theater, art, and filmmaking. 'The Downtown Pop Underground' takes a kaleidoscopic tour of Manhattan during this era and shows how deeply interconnected all the alternative worlds and personalities were that flourished in the basement theaters, dive bars, concert halls, and dingy tenements within one square mile of each other. Author Kembrew McLeod links the artists, writers, and performers who created change, and while some of them didn't become everyday names, others, like Patti Smith, Andy Warhol, and Debbie Harry, did become icons. Ambitious in scope and scale, the book is fueled by the actual voices of many of the key characters who broke down the entrenched divisions between high and low, gay and straight, and art and commerce--and changed the cultural landscape of not just the city but the world.

"What really happened on the first Thanksgiving? How did a British drinking song become the national anthem of the United States? And what makes Superman so darned American? Every tradition, even the noblest and most cherished, has a history, nowhere more so than in the USA, which was born with a relative indifference, if not hostility, to the past. Most Americans would be surprised to learn just how recent and controversial the origins of their traditions are, as well as how those origins are often related to the trauma of the Civil War and to fears for American identity stemming from immigration and socialism. Inventing American Tradition explores a wide range of beloved traditions, including political symbols, holidays, lifestyles and fictional characters, and looks at the people who conceived of and adapted them into the forms familiar to Americans and the innumerable people around the world influenced by American culture today. What emerges is the realization that all traditions are invented by particular people at particular times for particular reasons, and that the process of traditioning is forever ongoing."--Dust jacket.

2594944Annual manual : the local's guide to living in Cincinnati.2018-11-27T00:00:00-05:00

Cincinnati, Ohio : Published by CityBeat

v. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.

Title from cover.

Copies in Genealogy & Local History Dept., Cincinnati Room have original printed wrappers.

3394028Calm in the chaos : essays for anxious times2018-11-15T00:00:00-05:00

The resurrection difference -- The pity of Christ -- A river in Egypt: denying the undeniable -- Telling the truth -- Liturgical confusion: challenging reform -- Translating the Mass: the liturgical experts' long tassels -- More fascinating than fiction -- The canonization of Teresa of Calcutta -- The idea of a Catholic University fifty years after Land O' Lakes -- President Trump's Warsaw speech -- A populist election and its aftermath -- The tailors of Tooley Street: reflections on the Ivory Tower and reality -- Two Newmans and two Catholic springs -- Dignitas: the manners of humility -- The banners of Lepanto -- Luther looks at Islam -- The use of brains in a brainless time -- A misplaced grief: the Vatican and David Bowie -- The problem with pews -- A tale of two Georges -- The curate's egg: a reflection on Amoris Laetitia -- Looking down on Africa -- Persecution today in the lands of the epiphany -- Making dogma from unsettled science -- Mixing up the sciences of heaven and earth -- Tolerating terror -- The Paris horror: real and explicable -- The Pope's off-the-cuff remarks in Turin -- State education -- Advent: in my end is my beginning -- Pentecost and the prerequisites for true devotion -- Prophecy and prediction: best left to the professionals -- The Holy Spirit and the two stewards of justice -- On praising famous men -- The mindless iconoclasm of our age.

A series of essays about our society's collective anxiety and the importance of having faith in God granting us peace and hope beyond the day-to-day trials and tribulations.

"A lavishly comprehensive collection of essays, articles, columns, and interviews from the inimitable intellectual firebrand: tackling topics from Picasso to punk rock, from religion to Rihanna, and covering the full span of her wide-ranging and important career. Much has changed since Camille Paglia first burst onto the scene with her best-selling Sexual Personae, but her laser-sharp insight, matchless wit, and fearless commentary continue to be ahead of the curve--not only capturing the tone of the moment, but often anticipating it. Provocations gathers together a rich, varied body of work from this important public intellectual who works across a dazzling array of platforms--from the lecture halls of academia to her column at Salon to the pages of The Hollywood Reporter. Whatever your political inclination or cultural touchstones, Camille's takes on the rise of the right, the death of Prince, developing a writing style, the state of LGBT activism, and presidents past and present (to name just a few topics) are thought-provoking, compulsively readable, and not to be missed. An original introduction by the author sets a galvanizing--and inspiring--tone for the book"-- Provided by publisher.

3386533Star trek : a cultural history2018-11-07T00:00:00-05:00

Booker, M. Keith, author.

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2018]

xxiv, 191 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Star Trek and the history of Star Trek -- Star Trek and the history of American science fiction -- Star Trek and American political history -- Star Trek on the history of American technology -- Star Trek and the history of fandom -- Appendix: Episodes of Star Trek: the original series.

I was a size 12 once for like twenty-seven minutes -- Feminism, I was rooting for you ; we were all rooting for you -- LOL. Wut? : an incomplete list of all the ways being a woman is ridic -- Some thoughts on interracial dating from someone who is a motherflippin' pro at it -- The top ten non-trash moments of my life -- Meeting Bono twice was my reparations -- Money is a trifling heaux and also your BFF -- You're not curing cancer (unless you are -- then carry on, my workaholic son) -- How to be alone and only mildly hate and lukewarm love it -- Addendum : I have a boyfriend now ... well, I had a BF at the time I turned this book in to my editor -- J/K, we're still together.

"A new, hilarious, and timely essay collection on gender, race, dating, and a world that seems to always be a self-starting dumpster fire from Phoebe Robinson."--Provided by publisher.

"Craft your own glass of Nuka-Cola, a bowl of BlamCo Mac & Cheese, and more with the recipes in Fallout: The Official Cookbook. Based on the irradiated delicacies of the world of Bethesda Entertainment's Fallout, this Vault-Tec-approved cookbook provides fans of the award-winning series with recipes inspired by their favorite Fallout foods. Whip up tasty versions of the Mirelurk egg omelette, throw some deathclaw meat on the grill, and re-create BlamCo Mac & Cheese with Fallout: The Official Cookbook"--Provided by publisher.

3372955The sky is falling : how vampires, zombies, androids, and superheroes made America great for extremism2018-09-13T00:00:00-04:00

"This book will engage your library's users through toy-centric events that riff on Everything Barbie, Strawberry Shortcake, Cabbage Patch Kids and more. Programs that incorporate yummy treats like cake pops, Chex mix, and Classic Candies by the Decade. Including discussion groups, board game gatherings, trivia contests, and many more fun programs."--Provided by publisher.

3367381Things that matter : three decades of passions, pastimes, and politics2018-07-30T00:00:00-04:00

Krauthammer, Charles, 1950-2018.

New York : Crown Forum, [2015]

viii, 405 pages ; 21 cm

Selected essays previously published in various periodicals and journals.

"New section: The age of Obama"--Cover.

America's preeminent columnist presents his penetrating and surprising reflections on everything from embryo research to entitlement reform, from Halley's Comet to border collies, from Christopher Columbus to Martin Luther King, from drone warfare to American decline. Features a special, highly autobiographical introduction.

3365439Dead girls : essays on surviving an American obesession2018-07-09T00:00:00-04:00

Bolin, Alice, author.

New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018]

276 pages ; 21 cm

Part 1: The dead girl show -- Toward a theory of a dead girl show -- Black hole -- The husband did it -- The daughter as detective -- Part 2: Lost in Los Angeles -- There there -- Los Angeles diary -- Lonely heart -- This place makes everyone a gambler -- The dream -- Part 3: Weird sisters -- A teen witch's guide to staying alive -- And so it is -- My hypochondria -- Just us girls -- Part 4: A sentimental education -- Accomplices.

"A collection of sharp, poignant essays that expertly blends the personal and political in an exploration of American culture through the lens of our obsession with dead women"-- Provided by publisher.

3362091Don't make me pull over! : an informal history of the family road trip2018-07-03T00:00:00-04:00

Swerving through the seventies : a family boldly leaves its driveway -- Pioneers of the pavement : the long road to the interstates -- Hey, where's everybody going? : Americans set off to discover America -- Packed in like sardines : join us, won't you? -- Smokeys in the bush : dodging cops (and stops) on the interstates -- Time to pass : diversions, directions and discoveries -- Eating up the miles : dining while driving -- Inn and out : motels, hotels and invaders from space -- Heavy metal highways : land yachts, station wagons and "the Thing" -- Through the windshield together : a crash course in seatbelts and safety -- Up, up and away : all roads lead to the airport -- Leaving it all behind : the end of the road for road trips?

3345369American Mom : a celebration of motherhood in pop culture2018-04-11T00:00:00-04:00

The Angel in the House : Nineteenth Century -- The Art of Motherhood: Pre-war Years -- The Greatest Mother in the World: World War I -- Betty dons her apron: Roaring Twenties -- Lean times: The Great Depression -- We can do it! : World War II -- The Good Housewife: 1950s -- Winds of Change: 1960s -- Taking care of Business: 1970s -- Rise of the Supermom: 1980s -- Mommy Tracked: 1990s -- Moms in Cyberspace: The New Millennium.

"A Geek in Korea reinvents the culture guide for the Internet age. Packed with articles and photographs, it covers all the touchstones of Korean culture--from Buddhism and Confucianism to chapters on the traditional arts and disciplines like Taekwondo. There are chapters on cultural code words and norms; personal relationships; business and technology; and symbols and practices that are peculiarly Korean. A number of chapters are devoted to Korean pop culture, with attention to the stars, idols, and urban subcultures associated with them. For visitors to Korea, the author includes a mini-guide to his favorite neighborhoods in Seoul and other places of outstanding interest."--Publisher description.

Real-life stories told by the people who lived them, favorite family and historic photos, vintage ads, newspaper and magazine clippings, and icons of pop culture.

3310708Life in the fantastic '40s : a decade of strength, progress and triumph2018-03-28T00:00:00-04:00

Greendale, WI : Reiman Media Group, [2013]

208 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

1940-1949: a retrospective -- As you were -- On the home front -- Hello Hollywood -- Kiddin' around -- Popular pastimes -- Around town -- Keeping house -- Unforgettable fashions -- Life together -- On the road -- My own memories journal.

More than 450 personal stories and photos from the United States in the 1940s, plus inspiring quotes and vintage ads.

3310710Life in America : celebrating the spirit of our country.2018-03-28T00:00:00-04:00